In 2018, astronomers discovered a brown dwarf binary system. Brown dwarfs are stellar objects that never had enough mass to fuse hydrogen and become fully
A new explanation has emerged for why Homo sapiens survived in Europe and North Asia when the apparently better-adapted Neanderthals did not. A variety of
Researchers have scanned the brains of more than 500 babies and young children in order to paint a detailed picture of the brain’s development during
It appears conservative Americans have a deeper distrust in science than previously believed. Not only do they distrust scientific ideas that do not correspond to
Sound can induce changes in cells and one team of researchers think this could be an effective way to manipulate their behavior, including for the
Some years seem to zip by in the blink of an eye, while others seem to drag on for far longer. But some, like leap
Dark matter is a hypothetical substance that outweighs regular matter – which makes stars, planets, and everything we can see and touch – by five
Something significant is happening to religious life across the US. In just a few decades, remarkably large numbers of people have been leaving organized religion.
“How, then, did life originate on Earth?,” the distinguished speaker, William Thomson, asked his audience during a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement
Hoping to keep tabs on the magnetic north’s wandering ways, the World Magnetic Model 2025 reveals the latest official predicted placement of Earth’s magnetic fields.
